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A new wave measurement technology developed by Porsche measured a giant wave by Sebastian Steudtner in February.
For centuries, rogue waves were considered nothing but nautical folklore. It wasn't until 1995 that myth became fact. On the ...
Garrett McNamara holds the record for the largest wave ever surfed, set in 2011 in Nazare, Portugal. Last year he claimed to have surfed a 100-footer also at Nazare, but the height hasn’t been ...
In a nutshell, in 2003, Will Henry founded the coalition to campaign and generate public support to protect surf breaks ... option than Portugal’s more famous big wave, Nazaré.
At The Wave, an inland surfing centre just outside Bristol that delivers consistent, artificial waves, women are being ...
It is perhaps the biggest wave in the world ... “McNamara is well known in Portugal—and in Nazaré in particular—since he surfed that 24-meter wave in 2011,” says Ana Roque de Oliveira ...
That’s right, Gabeira has only gone and smashed a Guinness World Record: largest wave surfed ... year during the World Surf’s League in Praia do Norte in Nazaré, Portugal.
Scenes of carnage, fueled by a humungous and treacherous swell, have been filtering through social media feeds from Australia’s east coast, and the area surrounding Sydney in particular. Coastal ...
Uruguay The surfer “Pepe” Gomez slid this week what may be the biggest wave ever surfed by an Uruguayan. He did it in Nazaré, Portugal, where a submarine valley creates the necessary ...
The Brazilian-born surfer not only broke the world record twice for the biggest wave ever surfed by a woman ... 68-foot wave off the coast in Nazaré, Portugal, it took nine months for Guinness ...